Audio Archive

Download or listen to free music and audio
This library contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download. Check our FAQ for more information.

Contribute Your Audio
Please feel free to upload your audio (Uploaders, please set a Creative Commons license as part of the upload process, so people know what they can do with your audio - thanks!)

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You are invited to view or upload audios to the Community collection. These thousands of recordings were all contributed by Archive users and community members. Please select a Creative Commons License during upload so that others will know what they may (or may not) do with with your audio. Click here to contribute your audio ! Browse by style: Blues , Country , Electronic , Experimental , Hiphop , Indie , Jazz , Rock , Spoken Word .

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LibriVox - founded in 2005 - is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA and available as free downloads on the internet. If you are not in the USA, please check your country's copyright law before downloading. Please visit the LibriVox website where you can search for books that interest you. You can search or...

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Browse: all artists · this day in history · average review rating · number reviews · date reviewed · number views The Live Music Archive is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format, along with the convenience of on-demand streaming. In 2002, the Internet Archive teamed up with etree.org to create the Live Music Archive in order to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to... Topic: Live Music

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Folksonomy : A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Coined by Thomas Vander Wal, it is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy. Folksoundomy : A collection of sounds, music and speech derived from the efforts of volunteers to make information as widely available as possible. Because...

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Browse: this just in · stream only (SBD) shows · downloadable (AUD) shows · this day in history · average review rating · number reviews · date reviewed · number views · search forums Created in 2004 this collection consists of both audience and soundboard recordings. It is not uncommon to find multiple versions of the same show. For more information please see the FAQ . The Grateful Dead collection is not currently open to public uploads. Search Shows: Downloadable Shows - usually... Topic: grateful dead, jam, rock, jerry garcia

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If you're looking for advice about raising your child, conversations about personal change, a forum for transgender issues, or want to listen to an Old Time Radio show: the Radio Programs collection has something for you. If you are looking for radio news programs, please visit the Audio News & Public Affairs collection.

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Diehard podcasters are featured here! These podcast collections were all created from user contributions to the Open Source Audio collection. A great resource for podcasters: the Creative Commons Podcasting Legal Guide .

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In hip hop's earliest days, the music only existed in live form, and the music was spread via tapes of parties and shows. Hip hop mixtapes first appeared in the mid-1970s in New York City, featuring artists such as Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. As more tapes became available, they began to be collected and traded by fans. In the late 70's into the early 80's DJs began recording mixtapes out of their homes, referring to them as House Tapes. DJs such as Harold G. (who later became known as Whiz...

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This collection features audio collections reflecting music, art and culture. Collections include the unique contemporary compositions and performances found in the Other Minds collection, the hundreds of popular songs from the early 20th Century found in the 78 RPM collection and oral history projects.

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The Great 78 Project ! Listen to this collection of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th century. These recordings were contributed to the Archive by users through the Open Source Audio collection. Also the Internet Archive has digitized many . Artists available here include Ada Jones, Caruso, Eddie Cantor, Edison Concert Band, Harry MacDonough, Len Spencer, Paul Whiteman, and many others. The Almost Complete 78 RPM Recording Dating Guide by Steven C Barr has good...

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Diehard podcasters are featured here! These podcast collections were all created from user contributions to the&nbsp; Open Source Audio &nbsp;collection. A great resource for podcasters: the Creative Commons&nbsp; Podcasting Legal Guide .

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SermonIndex is not just a website but really has become a movement of believers seeking the 'old paths' (Jeremiah 6:16). This journey of faith weaves through the current state of evangelical Christianity and the passionate preaching of many godly ministers in our day. Many are seeking authenticity, reality and sincerity in the Christian faith. In a day when popular preachers are telling lies (Jeremiah 5:30-31), there is a great renewed desire to find the real Jesus in the midst of the...

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Alternative independent radio news programming is featured here. In addition to a host of intriguing radio news shows, this collection features the Presidential Recordings collection of historical speeches and secret recordings.

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Download free music from Phil Lesh and Friends. Concerts in the Live Music Archive are available for download and streaming in formats including flac, mp3, and ogg vorbis. Limited Flag: LimSpecial / LimProject / NoSides Topic: Jam

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Newest uploads! Auto-78-twitter .&nbsp; Through the Great 78 Project the Internet Archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of George Blood, L.P. . 78s were mostly made from shellac, i.e., beetle resin, and were the brittle predecessors to the LP (microgroove) era.&nbsp;&nbsp; @great78project for uploads as they happen. Turntable used for 78rpm digitization of four simultaneous recordings with different needles. The... Topics: 78rpm, digitization Source: 78

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Lectures given to support my Abnormal Psychology course at Portland Community College. These lectures are an enhanced podcast, and are best subscribed to using iTunes, and opening the Video viewer to see the slides synchronized with the lecture. Go to: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=265029591 Topics: psychology, lectures, class lectures, abnormal psychology

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Bad Panda is a free-download netlabel releasing a new Creative Commons licensed song every monday. contacts: badpandarecords at gmail dot com Official Blog Facebook Twitter StereoMood Soundcloud Tumblr i love music. i always will. it saved my life, and i bet i'm not the only one who can say that. what is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. at some point it became the business of selling cds in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. but...

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For more information, visit The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) website .&nbsp; www.arcmusic.org&nbsp;&nbsp; If you reference any of our posted books for research projects or publications, please credit the ARC and the Internet Archive.&nbsp; If you have music books to donate, please contact ARC.

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Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 450 stations in North America. The programs are uploaded to the Archive daily and are available in English or Spanish. The program is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media center in New York City's Chinatown. Click for more information about Democracy Now!

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LibriVox recording of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting...favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 20 reviews ) Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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Download free music. Concerts in the Live Music Archive are available for download and streaming in formats including flac, mp3, and ogg vorbis. Photo by 6tee-zeven (Originally uploaded to Flickr as Ryan Adams) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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This is a script-generated mirror of Jamendo.com , which describes itself this way: "Jamendo is the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads. Available in seven languages, it offers the largest catalog of music under Creative Commons licenses. For artists, it's an easy and efficient way to publish, share and promote their music, and also to make money, through ad revenue sharing and commercial partnerships." In all cases, the album contain links back to the original...

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The Retroist Podcast takes a nostalgic look back at the last 30 years of retro themed pop culture. Get your regular fix of retro with interviews, reviews and fun filled information. If you enjoy retro pop culture and the 1980s you are in for a real treat. The website for the podcast and the blog is at http://www.retroist.com/ .

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Librivox recording of The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Lionel Giles. Read by Moira Fogarty. "The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest and most famous studies of strategy and has had a huge influence on both military planning...favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 14 reviews ) Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, war, Sun Tzu, Sunzi, Lionel Giles Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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Sirona is an underground netlabel based in France. Sirona was etablished in order to promote & release wide ranges of electronically developed music made by artists from artists from all around the globe. Styles: Electronica, IDM, Techno, Hardcore, Drum & Bass, Ambient, Noise, Glitch , Minimal, Dub, Acid, Breakbeat, Breakcore, Drone, Industrial, Experimental, Trip-Hop, Hip-Hop, New-Wave, Soundscape, Nu Jazz, & more... We focus on electronic music but we are open minded so we also...

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Librivox recording of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were originally published in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The title character was named after famous American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover,m4b or other formats (if...favoritefavoritefavorite ( 24 reviews ) Topics: librivox, audiobook, literature, Holmes, adventure, Doyle Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text

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Download or listen to free music and audio
This library contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download. Check our FAQ for more information.

Contribute Your Audio
Please feel free to upload your audio (Uploaders, please set a Creative Commons license as part of the upload process, so people know what they can do with your audio - thanks!)